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Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. Inside the Snitch Tank Edward Humes | The Orange County Register | Jan. 1, 2016 | 77 minutes (19,430 words) Edward Humes painstakingly […]
Which of our neighbors have been rounded up so far?
While snowed in on the West Coast, Frances Badalamenti grapples alone with her father’s death on the other side of what feels like a dying country.
What do we gain from giving inmates access to video games?
Sarah Yager reports in The Atlantic about how nursery prisons are helping incarcerated mothers and their babies.
Uncovering the dating habits of conspiracy theorists and the challenges they face.
Mooallem follows two ex-convicts who pick up inmates the day they are released and help then navigate through their first day of freedom.
Drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as “El Chapo,” escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico this weekend. It’s his second prison escape. “Anyone who makes a mile-long tunnel from his cell and escapes on a motorcycle is necessarily in collusion with the government,” a government official told Patrick Radden Keefe in his New Yorker […]
When an American exchange student discovered that the Germans never lose anything.
A reading list of eight stories on marijuana.
